Fritz Paul (Scandinavian)

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Fritz Paul (born April 4, 1942 in Nesselwang ) is a German Scandinavian . He is professor emeritus for “Germanic, especially Nordic Philology” at the Georg-August University in Göttingen .

Life

After graduating from high school in Kempten (Allgäu) in 1962 , Paul studied German and Nordic studies from 1964 to 1968 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and at the University of Oslo . In 1968 he became a symbol and myth with his dissertation . PhD studies on Henrik Ibsen’s late work . From 1968 to 1972 he was a research assistant at the seminar for Nordic philology and Germanic antiquity at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. In 1972 Paul completed his habilitation in Munich for the subject "Nordic Philology". In the same year he was appointed to a professorship for older and newer Scandinavian studies at the Ruhr University in Bochum . From 1979 until his retirement in 2007 he was professor for “Germanic, especially Nordic philology” at the Georg-August University in Göttingen .

Paul was co-editor of the yearbook of the Brothers Grimm Society from 1991 to 1996 . Since 1988 he has been a full foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Literature, History and Antiquities, since 1994 a full foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and since 1995 a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . In 1993 he was appointed a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study, Oslo. From 1994 to 1996 he was Vice President of the Georg-August University in Göttingen .

Research priorities

Paul deals with the literatures of Scandinavia from the Middle Ages to the present. The focus is primarily on the literature of the 19th and early 20th centuries. a. Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg . Issues of comparative literature and translation studies are often included. The preferred literary genre is drama . Old Norse literature is a secondary focus .

Fonts

  • Symbol and myth. Studies on Henrik Ibsen's late work . Munich 1969 (= Munich University Writings. Series of the Philosophical Faculty. Vol. 6)
  • Henrich Steffens. Natural philosophy and universal romance . Munich 1973.
  • August Strindberg . Stuttgart 1979 (= Metzler Collection. Vol. 178). ISBN 3-476-10178-9 .
  • (Ed.): Principles of the more recent Scandinavian literatures . With contributions by Alken Bruns, Wolfgang Butt, Wilhelm Friese, Bernhard Glienke, Gert Kreutzer, Otto Oberholzer, Fritz Paul. Darmstadt 1982. (= Basic features. Vol. 41). 2nd edition Darmstadt 1991, ISBN 3-534-08047-5 .
  • Prices with explosive power. Scandinavia and its Nobel Prizes . Hannover 2000 (= series of publications of the Lower Saxony state parliament. Issue 38).
  • Small writings on Nordic philology . Vienna 2003 (= Vienna Studies in Scandinavian Studies. Vol. 9). ISBN 3-7069-0139-0 .
  • Numerous essays on Scandinavian and German literature.

literature

  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2009. 22nd edition, KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23629-7 .

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ Kungl.Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Academies
personal data
SURNAME Paul, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Scandinavian
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Nesselwang